Nucleate Paris — Women's Dinner 2026
Nucleate Paris is hosting a Women's Dinner, sponsored by Lyda Hill Philanthropies, to connect women trainees with women leaders in the biotech industry. This Women’s Dinner is part of Nucleate's global initiative to support women in leadership positions. The initiative aims to bring together women trainees in leadership roles with current women leaders in the life sciences, fostering mentorship, networking, and empowerment.
We are looking for motivated trainees, students and young professionals to join us. Dinner expenses are covered by Nucleate.
About the speakers: Our two women leaders attending the dinner are Lydia Seyler and María Teresa Pérez Zaballos, PhD.
Lydia is a senior associate at XAnge, an early-stage investment fund with €800 million under management, based in Paris, Berlin, and Brussels. Its investment team backs European entrepreneurs who aim to transform everyday life through technology, investing between €500,000 and €M10 from the seed stage onwards.
Maria is the CEO and co-founder of Endogene.bio, a startup building the molecular infrastructure to transform patient care in uterine disease. By leveraging menstrual blood as a non-invasive window into the uterus, they deliver unprecedented high-resolution disease biology through epigenetics and transcriptomics, enabling precision medicine for endometriosis and other uterine conditions.
About the Host:
Nucleate is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering the next generation of biotech leaders. With chapters spanning 41 geographic regions and participation from over 280 academic institutions, Nucleate sparks new intellectual communities and embeds emerging talent within a global biotech community. Through open-access educational programming, Nucleate helps democratize biotech innovation — removing barriers and helping founders concentrate on building transformational technologies. Visit www.nucleate.org for more information, and visit https://nucleate.org/privacy-policy/ to read our privacy policy.
We want to thank our HQ supporters for championing our open-access mission and empowering the next generation of biotech entrepreneurs!
Platinum: Eli Lilly and Company, Genentech, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, MilliporeSigma
Philanthropic Support: Lyda Hill Philanthropies
Preferred Partners: Pillar VC, Amino Collective, Excedr, Mercury, Brex, Fedsprout, Browne Consulting
In-Kind Support: AcademicLabs, Lens.org, SynBioBeta